TREASURE ANNU AL REPORT 2005/6 - Portable Antiquities Scheme

1105. Acton Trussell and bednall, staffordshire:
73 Roman base-silver radiates (2005 T542)
Date: AD 274
Discovery: Found by Mr R Gogerty while metaldetecting
in August 2005.
Description:
Central Empire:
Gallienus (AD 260–268), 4
Claudius II (AD 268–270), 7
Quintillus (AD 270), 2
Gallic Empire:
Postumus (AD 260–269), 2
Victorinus (AD 269–271), 13
Tetricus I & II (AD 271–274), 18
Uncertain Gallic, 9
Irregular, 2
Uncertain emperor, 16
Disposition: Disclaimed, returned to finder.
R ABDY
1106. Langley with hardley, Norfolk (addenda):
33 base-metal radiates (2006 T87)
Date: AD 278
Discovery: Found by Mr K Cranham while metaldetecting
in 2004. Original hoard found in March 1997.
Description:
Central Empire:
Gallienus (AD 260–268), 5
Claudius II (AD 268–270), 3
Divus Claudius II (AD 270), 1
Quintillus (AD 270), 1
Probus (AD 276–282), 1
Gallic Empire:
Postumus (c. AD 267–269), 1
Victorinus (AD 269–271), 13
Tetricus I (AD 271–274), 3
Victorinus/Tetricus I (AD 269–274), 5
Discussion: For other addenda see Treasure Annual
Report 1998–99, no. 301; Treasure Annual Report 2000,
no. 254; Treasure Annual Report 2001, no. 192.
Disposition: Disclaimed, returned to finder.
A MARSDEN
1107. Wherstead, suffolk:
1,026 Roman base-silver radiates (2005 T46) and
addenda of 149 base-silver radiates (2006 T105)
Date: AD 279
Discovery: Found by Mr C Roper & Mr R Talman while
metal-detecting in February/March 2005 & February
2006.
Description:
Central Empire:
Valerian & Gallienus (AD 253–260)
Gallienus, 1
Gallienus & Salonina (AD 260–268)
Gallienus, 22
Claudius II (AD 268–270), 17
Divus Claudius II, 1
Probus (AD 276–282), 1
Gallic Empire:
Postumus (AD 260–269), 3 (1 possibly irregular)
Victorinus (AD 269–271), 22
Tetrici (AD 271–274), 51
Uncertain Gallic, 18
Irregular (ancient forgeries), 6
Illegible, 7 (including 1 fragment)
Discussion: Final coin of Probus dated by Bastien,
Le Monnayage de l’atelier de Lyon, to 4th issue at the
mint of Lyon, AD 277 (no. 194).
Disposition: Disclaimed, returned to finder.
R ABDY
1108. King’s somborne, hampshire: Fused lump of
25+ base-silver barbarous radiates (2005 T357)
Date: c. AD 270s
Discovery: Found by Mr R Cranham while metaldetecting
in August 2005.
Description: The coins are in a fused lump. Of the
visible coins, diameters range from 14mm down to
7mm. All are illegible but the largest coin on the surface
of the lump shows the radiate head of a Gallic emperor
(Victorinus or Tetricus I). Given the small module of
most of the coins, it is likely that most, if not all, the
coins are irregular ‘Barbarous’ radiates.
Disposition: Disclaimed, returned to finder.
R ABDY
1109. East Winch, Norfolk (addenda):
32 Roman denarii and radiates (2005 T205)
Date: Late AD 270s or 280s
Discovery: Found by Mr S Brown while metaldetecting
between November 2004 & May 2005.
Description:
Addenda (a)
1. Cut or broken denarius fragment of Elagabalus
(RIC 131), AD 218–222, 1.27g.
2. Cut or broken late Severan denarius fragment,
c. AD 218–235, 0.58g.
3. Cut or broken denarius fragment of ?Antoninus Pius,
AD 138–161, 1.04g.
4. Gallic empire radiate imitation, ?Spes derivative,
0.60g.
5. Gallic empire radiate imitation, standing figure
reverse, 0.60g.
6–8. Radiate imitations, illegible reverses, 0.57g, 0.48g,
0.47g.
9–26. Imitations, illegible details (all accreted, some to
a great degree), total 11.87g.
This first addenda includes three fragments of silver
denarii which would have furnished the silver content
present in radiate imitations. Those radiates that are
legible do appear to have stylistic affinities with the
group found earlier.
Addenda (b)
1. Victorinus, broken fragment of Pax Aug type (V/*//
branch), 0.59g.
2. Gallic empire radiate imitation, stick figure derivative,
0.94g.
3. Gallic empire radiate imitation, Invictus derivative,
0.53g.
4–6. Imitations, illegible details (all accreted), total
1.34g.
For the original hoard see Treasure Annual Report 2004
no. 444.
Note: Catalogue by A Marsden.
Disposition: Generously donated by finder and
landowner to Norwich Castle Museum.
R ABDY
1110. braithwell, south yorkshire (addendum):
A Roman base-metal denarius (2006 T389)
Date: AD 282
Discovery: Found by Mr P Leech while metal-detecting
in May 2006.
Description: A base-metal denarius of Gallienus,
(sole reign, 5th series at Rome, RIC 355).
For the original hoard of 1,331 base-silver radiates and
pottery container, see Treasure Annual Report 2002,
no. 201.
Disposition: Doncaster Museum & Art Gallery hopes
to acquire.
A MARSHALL & S MOORHEAD
1111. Alton, Wiltshire: At least 3,844 base-silver
radiates, a bone counter and associated pottery
(2005 T348)
Date: AD 282
Discovery: Found by Mr C May while metal-detecting
in August 2005.
Description:
Gordian III (AD 238–244), 1
Valerian & Gallienus (AD 253–260)
Valerian, 10
Gallienus, 5
Salonina, 14
Saloninus, 2
Divus Valerian II, 2
Gallienus & Salonina (AD 260–268)
Gallienus, 489
Salonina, 29
Claudius II (AD 268–270), 388
Divus Claudius II, 58
Quintillus (AD 270), 3
Aurelian (AD 270–275), 43
Severina, 9
Tacitus (AD 275–276), 104
Florian (AD 276), 4
Probus (AD 276–282), 107
Gallic Empire:
Postumus (AD 260–269), 49
Laelian (AD 269), 2
Marius (AD 269), 4
Victorinus (AD 269–271), 512
Divus Victorinus, 2
Tetricus I (AD 271–274), 944
Tetricus II (AD 272–274), 435
Irregular, 614
Uncertain fragments, 20 (accreted with iron deposits)
Pottery and gaming counter: The hoard was contained
in the lower part of a grey ware jar, a very common
utilitarian form made locally through Roman Britain.
A thin flat circle gaming counter made from bone.
Diameter 22 mm; similar counters are known from
Roman sites in this country.
Discussion: The group of coins is broadly similar in
composition to the many Romano-British coin hoards
(at least 200 so far recorded) buried in the aftermath
of the breakaway ‘Gallic Empire’. The Gallic Empire,
whose capital was at the city of Trier but which had
held dominion over Britain, was established in AD 260
and reconquered by the legitimate (‘Central’) emperor
Aurelian in AD 274.
Disposition: Wiltshire Heritage Museum has acquired.
R ABDY, R BLAND, S MOORHEAD, F SANCHEZ-LOPEZ
& J D HILL
1112. North West suffolk: 627 Roman base-silver
radiates and associated pottery (2005 T434)
Date: AD 296
Discovery: Found by Mr P Flack while metal-detecting
in October 2005, with subsequent excavation by
Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service.
Description:
Probus (AD 276–282), 1
Maximian (AD 285–305), 1
Carausius, (AD 287–293), 266
Carausius for Diocletian, 5
Carausius for Maximian, 5
Allectus (AD 293–296), 349
Pottery vessel: A semi-complete small, slender
narrow-mouthed jar, now reconstructed from about
60 fragments. Both fabric and form suggest local
manufacture, probably in the Wattisfield area.
Disposition: British Museum (registration nos.
2007,4056.1 to 627).
R ABDY
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